Saban said we needed to lose.

[TboneJones]

"In my opinion, Miami needed to lose. I used to tell our team all the time when we played a game like that, we needed to lose. Because we need to learn from the things that we're not doing to create the habits we need to have to play winning football on a consistent basis.
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Nick Saban on ESPN College GameDay

Saban only had 2 undefeated national championship teams. I agree with Saban. I think the loss to Louisville is a focus shifter for us.

 

[caneworld]

We shall see in five days

 

[stormsurge]

coaches got some lessons they need to learn too

 

[Mr. Dynasty1]

Yes if we had a legit coach I would agree. However, Mario is not that guy

 

[Glow]

This will be true if we adjust tendencies and risk tolerance and self scout.

If we just "get back to work" doing the same things then no.

 

[Empirical Cane]

Mario was on Saban's staff and is a big protege of Nick.

I think our Canes are far past the "needed to lose phase"

 

[miamicanephins]

 

[TemplarCane]

Saban was able to get his teams to refocus. He would echo Jimmy Johnson by telling you it's difficult to have a team 'up and motivated' every game. Especially college players used to winning and hearing how great they are. Rat poison is real.

Can Mario coach the team into rebounding rather than collapsing?

Stanford is a bad team with a lot of injuries, travelling across country for a night game against a team that should be angry and looking to beat the crap out of someone.

We'll see.

 

[CBurrr93]

Guess we need to lose to any ACC team where we are double digit favorites. It seems to do us a lot of good every year

 

[supacane]

Lets see what we do v Stanford and then SMU. That will determine what this UL game meant. We should smoke Stanford and SMU gonna be a challenge because Lashlee is a pretty good schemer like Brohm.

One thing is pretty clear to me. We cannot rely on Beck chucking the ball all over to win games. They need to run the **** ball, and we haven't since UF. We are a running team, that is and should be our bread and butter and that OL needs to be chewed out after getting all the praise earlier

 

[ShadowSpring]

Gotta win out or this season is another embarrassing failure. Saban knows ball, hopefully this team responds.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

This team is behind the 8 ball right now in terms of playing for the ACC title game. Lose one more game and wave bye to the playoffs once again.

 

[JHallCanes]

 

[simplycanes]

Would have thought they go that out of their system last year, or any of the prior 22 seasons.

 

[OrangeSlidez]

Failure breeds efficiency

 

[hurricaneman]

Saban telling us we needed this. Dmoney blaming the fans. The abuse cycle continues.

 

[CANEMC]

 

[RozayCane]

Unfortunately Nicholas, this team has Mario

 

[jrock2332]

Real talk what incentive does Mario really have to change. He isn't getting fired. Is his ad going to challenge him. Doubt he cares about outside noise.

 

[ThomasM]

"In my opinion, Miami needed to lose. I used to tell our team all the time when we played a game like that, we needed to lose. Because we need to learn from the things that we're not doing to create the habits we need to have to play winning football on a consistent basis.
"
Nick Saban on ESPN College GameDay

Saban only had 2 undefeated national championship teams. I agree with Saban. I think the loss to Louisville is a focus shifter for us.

FSU said the same thing after losing to Virginia.